What I did today 2012-2014

[Plot28 A&B]

Spent the morning taking down the runner beans, dug the last line of spuds , mowed the grass hopefully for the last time, cut back the hedge on one side of the plot and cut the pumpkins for storage ready for Halloween Still got loads to do but it was a great morning in the sunshine


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[Bigmallly]

Got my sweet peas sown for next year. Well, the first batch anyway, I'll probably start off some more in the spring.

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Love the idea with the canes Martin.

[Martin H]

Love the idea with the canes Martin.

Thanks. It works well to keep everything together. Even though the newspaper starts to disintegrate before I plant out, the paper still keeps the roots of each plant separate as long as I can keep it in formation.

[Bigmallly]

Thanks. It works well to keep everything together. Even though the newspaper starts to disintegrate before I plant out, the paper still keeps the roots of each plant separate as long as I can keep it in formation.

Would be useful to use with any spare rootrainers as they always pop open.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Nice job Deano............

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The "Stations" have their own collection jug BM!

.......... Which you then pour into your watering can at the desired concentrate!

Oh! and that poor bench as been passed from "Pillow to Post"

But it came back from "The Old Dears" caravan, n carries with it a bit of sentiment! (needs some attention too)

But I'll find it a permanent home eventually!

Cheers for your awareness though! In case I had dropped a huge calamity! ............

[Snadger]

Weeded a bed that had onions and leeks in it. Cleaned out a chicken coop and applied poop liberally to same bed. (Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I compost it or not)
Set up a collapsible table next to shed for overwintering plants on. Tidied tomato plants taking off dodgy looking leaves.
My next door neighbours FIL has recently died and he was a keen leek grower. He had established his own strain of show leek which my neighbour isn't really interested in. To keep his FIL's strain going I asked if I could have his biggest leek to use as a seed leek. I dug it up, cleaned it up and set it in a large pot of new compost, giving it pride of place in the greenhouse. Hopefully it will run to seed and i can collect the seed for future growing on. With a bit of luck it will also give me some leek grass to carry on the strain vegetatively!

[Florence Fennel]

The large bra's are now planted and are at the mercy of the snugs. Fingers crossed they are big enough to survive the attacks.

[Bex]

As soon as they germinate they go into the cold frame. They are pretty hardy, they will be fine in there until April when I plant them out.

Once they are about 6 or 8 inches tall I nip the tops out, that's all they need.

Yay something I can put in my recently acquired cold frame. Thanks Martin


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[Seagull]

Cleared my French beans - sad to see them go, as they've been amazing.

Planted 96 (give or take) Troy onion sets and 39 Vallelado garlic cloves.

[Mumbles]

Had home made pie and home grown veg for dinner, absolutely yummy


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[Nannysally99]

I had a nice dinner of roast lamb with roasted squash and carrots from our garden. Was nice.

[Bren In Pots]

Harvested my crispy dried Runner beans for next years seeds then cooked and froze those that were still green to use in chillis.
Took a couple of courgette plants and GH cucs that have finished.
Planted winter lettuce.

[KevinM67]

Yesterday - after 5 years of total neglect, I finally tackled the last place on my plot that I've never done anything with.

An area of about 10ft by 5ft - full of brambles, couch grass, nettles, horsetail, the whole shebang.

Will probably still need a good few digs to get rid of the most stubborn of roots - but most satisfying.

Also, the soil is probably the best I have on the plot, with the rest being really heavy clay.

(It's amazing what you find underground - skeletons, asbestos, bits of old tools, etc)

[Bigmallly]

Managed to get round to:
Attaching a waterbutt to greenhouse gutter.
Linked 5 small barrels to conservatory gutter (Lean to greenhouse........).
Fastened thin guttering to kite which run into flower buckets which have overflow hose fed into the kite which will have an irrigation system set up when I pick the pipework up tomorrow.
Cleared the pond of leaves.

[Noosner]

Sowed the rest of my garlic at lottie this weekend. But what with the seed garlic being so pricey, couldn't also resist a massive bulb for 60p at my local supermarket. Planted the cloves from that in the garden. We'll see. I do love an experiment!